Yes, the first video shows us how “clever” animals are; the second video bothers me.
Perhaps, I’m too sensitive; but, so many of those pets are clearly frustrated in not getting the toy or the treat and the owners just film away laughing at their pets. Like I said, perhaps I am just too sensitive but I cannot stand listening to a pets whimper the way so many in that video do.
So, I say that while the first video shows us how clever animals can be the second shows us how stupid some people can be.
… humans are emotional creatures. Feed me!
The trained behaviors are OK, but the problem solving/spontaneous play are fantastic! We don’t possess the only functioning brain on the planet that operates outside of instinct.
Perhaps they should be put in charge of Obamacare.
physicsguy:
The scientifically valid difference between humans and other life forms is the observed degrees of freedom. We can speculate about other differences and similarities, but that should be left in the philosophical domain.
Perhaps, one day, animals and plants will develop into something comprehensible. In the meantime, there is inference and correlation to stimulate our curiosity, not deduction and causality.
Training them to do tricks, same thing Leftists do to emulate problem solving.
“The scientifically valid difference between humans and other life forms is the observed degrees of freedom.”
I have no idea of what you mean by this statement.
Free will vs conditioned behavior.
As an owner of 4 cats and 5 dogs (about the 3rd generation since we’ve been married), I can state from actual experience that these animals can solve problems without training. Their “free will” may be limited, but there’s more a continuum of intelligence than a bifurcation. We aren’t that much ahead of those critters.
They have more free will and problem solving than Leftist zombies do.
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It’s like living with an eternal three year old.
Yes, the first video shows us how “clever” animals are; the second video bothers me.
Perhaps, I’m too sensitive; but, so many of those pets are clearly frustrated in not getting the toy or the treat and the owners just film away laughing at their pets. Like I said, perhaps I am just too sensitive but I cannot stand listening to a pets whimper the way so many in that video do.
So, I say that while the first video shows us how clever animals can be the second shows us how stupid some people can be.
… humans are emotional creatures. Feed me!
The trained behaviors are OK, but the problem solving/spontaneous play are fantastic! We don’t possess the only functioning brain on the planet that operates outside of instinct.
Perhaps they should be put in charge of Obamacare.
physicsguy:
The scientifically valid difference between humans and other life forms is the observed degrees of freedom. We can speculate about other differences and similarities, but that should be left in the philosophical domain.
Perhaps, one day, animals and plants will develop into something comprehensible. In the meantime, there is inference and correlation to stimulate our curiosity, not deduction and causality.
Training them to do tricks, same thing Leftists do to emulate problem solving.
“The scientifically valid difference between humans and other life forms is the observed degrees of freedom.”
I have no idea of what you mean by this statement.
Free will vs conditioned behavior.
As an owner of 4 cats and 5 dogs (about the 3rd generation since we’ve been married), I can state from actual experience that these animals can solve problems without training. Their “free will” may be limited, but there’s more a continuum of intelligence than a bifurcation. We aren’t that much ahead of those critters.
They have more free will and problem solving than Leftist zombies do.